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Africa & World Politics, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Latest Politics
Friday, June 10th, 2011
UNITED STATES (U.S.) President Barack Obama has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to take his election last month as a good opportunity to pursue the development of the country. He said the U.S. government would invigorate its assistance to the country through the U.S.-Nigeria Bi-national Commission. Obama, who also restated that Nigeria is one of […]
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INEC Politics, Latest Politics
Friday, June 10th, 2011
A JOINT research by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and other organisations has showed that the enthusiasm of Nigerians in the electoral process waned as violence disrupted the April general elections in some northern states. Consequently, INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, said yesterday in Abuja that the commission had taken steps to increase voters’ participation […]
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House, Legislature
Friday, June 10th, 2011
LIFE is a tragedy. Life in politics is like a hallucination. In our living years, false images appear real. In just one weekend, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, has transformed himself from a retiring lawmaker to a law evader to an ordinary man now in custody of the Economic and […]
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Ekiti, Headlines, Nigerian Police, State News
Friday, June 10th, 2011
THE Inspector General of Police (IG), Mr. Abubakar Hafiz Ringim has promised improved security in Ekiti State. He made the pledge in Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday after commissioning the Security Alert System and 24 vehicles equipped with high frequency radio and communication gadgets donated to the state police command by the state government. The event took […]
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Headlines
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
A LAGOS High Court sitting in Ikeja yesterday sentenced a middle-aged man, Joel Omotosho, to 16-and-a-half years imprisonment for stealing N20 million belonging to his employers. Justice Adebisi Kayode-Ogunmekan in her judgment dismissed an application filed by the prosecution for the forfeiture of a property he admitted building with the stolen money. The prosecution, led […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
FACED with unrelenting opposition at home and abroad, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has apparently reconsidered his bid to hold on to power. To ensure his safe exit, Gaddafi’s associates have opened negotiation with the United States(U.S.) and other countries. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters after an international conference on Libya in […]
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Headlines, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp)
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
THE National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Director General, Brig.- Gen. Maharazu Tsiga, has disclosed that 70 serving corps members are undergoing training on skill acquisition in Germany and the United States (U.S.). Tsiga made the disclosure yesterday while addressing workers of the scheme drawn from Edo, Delta, Ekiti and Ondo states that are undergoing […]
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Anambra, Headlines, State News
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Patients in all the hospitals in Nnewi, the industrial city of Anambra State, yesterday, suffered untold hardship as medical doctors in both public and private hospitals in the area downed tools and took to the streets to protest the kidnap of their colleague, Dr. Okwudili Udemezue. The doctors numbering over 300 with some medical students […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Since the conduct of the 2011 gubernatorial polls in Kano State, the state has remained deeply divided. And the rivalry between former governor Ibrahim Shekarau and his successor, Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso is not making the matter any better. The crux of the matter is the performance of Shekarau, who believed that his government performed […]
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House, Legislature
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
Six immediate past principal officers of the House of Representatives, including the ex-Deputy Speaker, Usman Nafada, were interrogated yesterday in Abuja by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission [EFCC], in connection with allegations of fraud for which Dimeji Bankole, who superintended over affairs at the House in the Sixth Assembly was docked yesterday. Others who […]
